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Dictionary of American Regional EnglishMontgomery pie n [Montgomery Co, Pennsylvania] sPA Cf shoofly pie
A pie made with a filling (as molasses, lemon custard) and with a layer of cake dough on top.
c1946 Griggs Sally Cook’s Recipe Book 44 Philadelphia, PA, Montgomery Pie.
1948 Hutchison PA Du. Cook Book 123, Mrs. Krusen’s Montgomery Pie—First Layer [includes molasses sugar, water, egg, lemon, flour]...Top layer [includes sugar, milk, butter, egg, baking powder, flour]. Line 2 pastry tins with pastry. Fill in 2 layers...Makes two 8-inch pies.
1955 Daily Progress (Charlottesville, VA) 1 Feb 7/5 Specialty of Pennsylvania Dutch kitchens—Shoofly Pie...[W]e roll out a pastry crust and pour a mixture of molasses, water and baking soda on it. Then we sprinkle a crumbly mixture of flour, sugar, spices, salt and butter or margarine over the liquid. A strange combination to put in the oven and expect to come out an edible pie. but it does—with a flaky bottom crust, then a brown custardy layer and a cake-like top...Sometimes it is called Molasses Shoofly Pie. Sometimes it goes under the name of Shoofly Cake or Molasses Crumb Cake. And occasionally it gets its name from a Pennsylvania county and is called Montgomery Pie.
1957 Showalter Mennonite Cookbook 375 csPA, Montgomery Pie—Bottom Part: Molasses...sugar...1 egg...Top Part: sugar...soda...sour milk...flour.
1966-69 DARE (Qu. H63, Kinds of desserts) Inf PA1, Montgomery pie—coconut and molasses; PA9, Montgomery pies—lemon custard on the bottom with cake dough on top; PA18, Montgomery pie—molasses, dough on top, similar to shoofly pie; PA203, Montgomery pie.
1969 DARE Tape PA203, Montgomery pie..is something on the order of shoofly pie only it’s got a liquid in the bottom..it’s got like a cake—you mix up the egg and the sugar, the flour, a little baking powder and put that on top of the syrup that you put in, and bake it.